Homeschooling Woes & Mischievous Teen Doodle #Humor

My daughter hates writing. Every time it comes to the composition portion of her languages arts, our homeschooling session are anything but fun. She loves making up stories and being creative but she detests having to compose essays with proper sentence structure and phrase variation. Keep in mind, the girl is in 7th grade and the basics should come easy for her. After several hours of trying a gazillion ways to get her to write beyond the level of “I like bugs”, I found this doodle. Did I ever mention just how expressive she is with her stick figure sketches?

What a mischievous (and pretty funny) teen I have! I wanted to be irritated upon seeing this but it cracked me up so much inside I couldn’t help but like it. Still, let’s just say it was a good thing I found her ‘playful’ stick person doodle AFTER her assignment was done and MUCH later in the evening . . .

How would you have reacted to seeing this doodle after a frustrating school work session?

TerriAnn van Gosliga is the main writer at Cookies & Clogs. Born & raised in the SF Bay Area but loves to travel. She's been married to her best friend for 19 years, used to homeschool her 18-year-old daughter before she started a public high school/college program, and has an accident-prone lab mix dog.

I love her doodle and can relate quite often in everyday life! My kids are 9, 7 and 5 and I am just now truly realizing they each have their different strengths and weaknesses. My oldest is a natural writer yet can hardly get through a division paper successfully (exactly like me) however my middle child is quick to grasp any new academic challenge, yet draws like a two year old. At times these facts can be difficult for me to digest!

I just shrug it off … from experience. ALL our daughter’s notebooks are covered in doodles, most of them lamenting her ‘teacher mother’ who ‘demands’ A+ work. I keep telling her that her professor’s in university next year won’t be nearly so apathetic toward her doodles as I am… LOL.

Considering I’m already pulling my hair out with my oldest (4th) child trying to get him to write essays worth a dime, I would have chuckled too (since it was AFTER all was said and done.) It’s good to know this is not something I’m alone in.

Oh I feel your pain. I have tried begging, yellowing, pleading and everything in between to get my teen to do his work without a hassle, but it doesn’t work. It must be the age. I have found my share of doodles as well.